Tune in on February 12 (NBC) when the 2010 Olympic Games get under way in Vancouver. Here, a few superwomen to watch for:

Lindsey Vonn, 25, USA, Alpine skiing

Since placing in the top 10 twice in the 2006 Olympics, Lindsey has raced full speed ahead: She's won back-to-back overall World Cup championships (the only American woman to do so) and two World Championship golds, and she got hitched to former U.S. Ski Team athlete Thomas Vonn.

Fun fact: Lindsey races the super-G competition, in which she slaloms between 30-plus gates on a course that she sees for the first time only on the morning of the race.

Shauna Rohbock, 32, USA, bobsled

Even before winning silver in 2006 (with teammate Valerie Fleming), Shauna was an All-American athlete in soccer and track and field — and she played pro soccer.

Fun fact: Bobsled crews consist of two people. Shauna used to be the brakewoman; now she's the pilot, steering the sled along the best line to achieve the greatest speed.

Though Mao missed the age cutoff to compete in the 2006 Olympics by a mere 86 days, in the lead-up to that event she outperformed all three skaters who went on to medal. Mao is considered to have the best shot of challenging South Korea's Kim Yu-Na for Olympic gold.

Fun fact: At the ripe old age of 12, Mao became the first female to complete a triple-triple-triple jump combination: a triple flip, loop, and toe loop with no steps or turns between jumps.